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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

It's also just completely inane. Okay let's say I was a russian asset, does that change the fact that Joe Biden has deported more people? It's just a thought killer meant to ignore any criticism.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They just need a quick, easy way to dismiss people without actually engaging their argument. I get hit with something similar sometimes. ".ml, argument invalid." because they don't want to admit they're supporting genocide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

The people calling everyone else bots can't parse a message from the wrong domain name. Sad!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago

Obsession with a plot! Obsession with a plot!

If Liberals aren't fascists why are they using U-Fascism as a checklist for how to do ideology?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Judeo bolshevist lies

cap-think "This needs a reskin"

~~judeo~~ bolshevist/communist lies

cap-think "Still a bit dated"

russian disinformation

porky-happy "Now we cooking"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago

Now call them anti-~~semitic~~ semetic and you're done

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

the star trek instance defederation is the most haunting example of this.

i'd like to think that trekkies are more open minded; but it was another reminder that we're the same as everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

They are indistinguishable from when the IDF calls everything hamas.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago

its the same country even

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Iunno bout that just because they rhyme doesnt mean theyre related

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Seems a bit of a stretch. Orientalism? Sure, I can see that. Antisemitism? I'm going to need some convincing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

i think in this specific instance its serving the same purpose of demonizing our ideas by using a popular hated strawman. which was jews at that time, but is russia now.

in general this is one the final purposes of these -isms and -phobias they keep pushing constantly.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

Yeah Jews got swapped for Slavs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

isn't that generally just describing an element of fascism?

scratch a etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

yeah, fascism and racism have a close relationship, for example.

fascism can't sustain itself without an 'other' out-group they can focus people's anger at.

preferrably a minority that has a harder time defending itself and putting the ruse into question, but it can technically even be an entire other nationality.